Ivo Perišin (4 July 1925 – 30 October 2008) was a

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n economist, politician and academician. He held various senior governmental posts in the

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in the 1970s and was mayor of

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from 1965 to 1967. In 1949, Perišin graduated from the University of Zagreb

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. He continued studies at the

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, and defended his doctoral thesis at the Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1959. From 1956 he was a professor of economics at the

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. From 1965 to 1967 he was the Mayor of

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. He served as the governor of the

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from 1 November 1969 to 31 December 1971. He was President of the Assembly of SR Croatia from 1974 to 1978. He was admitted as full member of the

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(today Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) on 17 May 1990.

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, - 1925 births 2008 deaths People from Kaštela Presidents of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Croatia Presidents of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Croatia 20th-century Croatian economists Governors of the National Bank of Yugoslavia Mayors of Split, Croatia Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Academic staff of the University of Zagreb University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics alumni Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb alumni League of Communists of Croatia politicians Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia members Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery {{Croatia-mayor-stub